#5117
The first thing to make clear is that proxies are not like VPN (Virtual Private Network), Shadowsocks, or some other Internet censorship circumvention applications. It mainly applies to two situations: 1) users want to hide their real IP address when surfing websites; 2) users want to choose to use the ISP (Internet Service Provider) that supports websites or online games well in order to get a better connection speed. The biggest drawback of proxies is that they are very easy to be invalid, therefore manually and frequently setting up the proxy for a web browser can be a very troublesome matter.

#5101
There are many ways to fake the displayed capacity info of any type of storage device (this is nothing new in the Chinese electronic marketplaces, where you have to have a third eye to avoid being cheated). For example, using the "subst" command to create a partition shortcut (which can be understood as a virtual partition); using "SFDISK" (hard disk partitioning tool under DOS) to modify the partition table information; using WinHex (to offset the DBR of disk to the target capacity), PC-3000 and similar tools to change disk information in the underlying hardware.

#5096
Shortny is a multifunctional website URL shortening service script developed based on PHP and MySQL. As its name suggests, its file size is quite small - less than 1 MB. The flies in the ointment are: Shortny's source code does not separate the templates out, and does not yet support a multilingual user interface. Of course, developers with a little understanding of the web front-end technology can further customize and improve it according to their own needs with ease.

#5092
Check Flash (ChkFlsh for short) is a tiny and free app for testing and formatting flash drives, developed by Cherkes Mihail from Ukraine. In addition to surface testing, it also allows to check the speed of reading and writing, edit partition info, save and restore full drive and partition images, save and restore MBR, and perform full drive or partition data erasing.

#5065
The DriverStore folder (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore) is used to store the third-party drivers for hardware by Windows. When you manually install a hardware driver, the corresponding driver files will be copied to this folder. When you uninstall this driver, the files should be removed too. However, if you just update a driver, then Windows will keep the old versions of this driver in case you encounter a problem and roll it back in the future. But the problem is that we almost never need to use those old drives.

#5036
DLL (Dynamic-link library) file includes a lot of functions, data and other resources that can be accessed and utilized by multiple programs. In addition, its importance to the system is self-evident (the absence of some important items inside will not only cause some software to fail, but also cause the system to crash), and virus files often use it to disguise themselves.

#5003
When Microsoft Office's activation fails or it runs into unsolvable problems, we often need a clean and complete uninstall to get everything ready to start from scratch. While to completely uninstall Office, neither of the official approaches (Uninstall Office from a PC, Manually uninstall Office) offered by Microsoft is worth wasting time to try. Instead, in addition to those universal software uninstalling tools like Total Uninstall and Uninstall Tool, you can also choose to use the more specialized Office Uninstall instead.

#4978
WinNTSetup is a very classic Windows system image installation and deployment tool for Windows and Windows PE, developed by JFX from Germany. It enables user to install Windows OS directly in Windows or Windows PE, without the assistance of any CD/DVD, USB and other storage devices. For this reason, WinNTSetup is often considered as the best tool for implementing Windows installation from local hard disk - that is, a universal hard disk installer for Windows OS.

#4914
Google Chrome does not officially offer a portable version, and its updates rely on Google's automatic update mechanism, which is always mandatory, and does not allow users to choose a desired version. Besides, the unofficial portable version of Chrome made by PortableApps doesn't support automatic updates or setting as default browser. In other words, every time Chrome releases a new version, you have to manually download and install it into the 'App' folder, which is really troublesome.

#4885
As you know, the system fonts in Microsoft Windows are not modifiable by default (except for size). As a result, if you would like to change the font itself because you're tired of Windows fonts always being the same, you have to do so by changing the registry manually or utilizing some third-party software.